Build Your Own Email Features with Open Source Filtering Software

Filtered is an open source PHP-based IMAP mail filtering platform. While Filtered provides basic mail filtering features and learns from the folders you drag and drop your email to, it is also a powerful foundational platform to enhance and innovate email – with a number of unique features.

We’re drowning in email and managing our inboxes remains a heavy burden. Mail services and clients have done very little to help us with this. Most of the email we receive is sent by machines, not people – yet, we’re the ones who have to individually process all of it. Analysis of my own email showed I was receiving email from more than 230 automated senders, far fewer people.

I built Filtered because I was tired of constructing filters in gmail and filling in unsubscribe forms. I wanted to have more control over managing my email and simplifying my life. I also wanted to offer a free, open source platform that allows other to innovate as well.

Filtered is essentially a programmable playground for “hacking” your own email.

Quiet hours & Do not disturb. Now I can turn off email delivery overnight and on weekends except for important friends or families.

Unsubscribe that works. Tell Filtered to block a sender and their messages are permanently blocked. I don’t need to spend time figuring out unsubscribe processes or worrying about whether they work.

Privacy. Drag messages to the Privacy folder and emails are encrypted and stored on your own server and deleted from your email server at Google or other provider that may be scanned by the NSA. You can also configure important contacts to automatically route to the Privacy folder.

The coolest thing about Filtered is that it’s a platform for reading, analyzing, routing and managing your email – possibilities abound. The basic version is free and open source available for download at Github now. Check out our Installation Guide.